WEST VIRGINIA CODE

WVC 35 - 3 - 7
§35-3-7. Enticement of residents away from fraternal home;
harboring or influencing inmate to violate rules;
improper intercourse with female resident of home.
Any person who shall entice or attempt to entice away from
any home maintained or kept by any of the fraternal organizations
specified in section one of this article, or any other
organization of like character, any resident of any such home; or
shall aid or abet any resident of any such home to leave the same
without proper authority; or shall harbor, conceal or aid or abet
in harboring or concealing any resident of any such home who
shall have left such home without proper authority; or shall in
any way knowingly cause or influence or knowingly attempt to
cause or influence any resident in any such home to violate any
rule of the home, or to rebel against the government of the home
in any particular; or shall have or attempt to have any improper
or unlawful communication or intercourse with any female resident
of such home, knowing her to be a resident thereof, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be
fined not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or, in the
discretion of the court, both fined and imprisoned.

If any person shall aid or abet the commission of any of the
offenses named in this section, or aid or abet an attempt to
commit the same, he shall be punished as herein provided the same
as if he were the principal. In the trial of any indictment for
committing any of the offenses named in this section, the accused
may be found guilty of an attempt to commit the same, or of aiding or abetting another in committing or attempting to commit
the same.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2016 Regular Session
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